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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Lessons Learned from the Ood

My latest TV Show obsession is the BBC show “Dr. Who” which
is seriously addicting!I started
watching it because all my youth kids were obsessed with it and wanted me to
jump on the band wagon. So, I did what any good youth leader would do and gave
into peer pressure.

It’s basically about
this “time lord” named simply “The Doctor” who travels through time and space
in his TARDIS (time machine/space ship) and saves the universe from mean
aliens (and sometimes mean humans).
On one adventure The Doctor
encounters these creatures called “The Ood.” The Ood are made to be servants to the humans
by having their brains removed and replaced with a glowing translation ball
that they use to speak.They are
stripped of their ability to think for themselves and are forced into
submission without knowing any better.

BUT WAIT!

There are still some
Ood who have their brains and they use them to telepathically send messages to
their brothers in arms and all the Ood rise up against the mean humans and thus
begins the Oodolution!

It was all very
dramatic and I found myself cheering for the aliens and against the
humans.Perhaps, because I found I could
relate with the Ood to some extent.I
find that many times within the walls of religion our brains are taken from us
and we are given our own translation balls that glow with the spiritual jargon
of law and duty.

We, like the Ood, are
forced into slavery without even knowing it, herded like cattle through one
ceremony after the other hoping that eventually one will bring us fulfillment.Every question or doubt is met with further
reprogramming and discipline to bring us into submission.

Maybe it’s time we took a lesson from the
Ood.Maybe it’s our time to rise up and
think for ourselves.Maybe it’s time our
eyes glow red with desire for more than captivity. It’s time to renew our
minds.IT’S TIME FOR A REVOLUTION!